> >Lastly, there IS a note in the announcement stating that the major version > >increase is due to a non-BC change, I don't see what everyone is > >complaining about. Perhaps you should request that your users read what > >they're downloading before they download it. > > Wrong, read the announcement again. It mentions the internal API. It > gives nobody any reason to even remotely suspect that their code needs to > be altered in order to be complaint. > > Zeev
You are right. And a lot of people are gonna be pretty pissed off after upgrading their production servers. Luckily I was able to stop someone from doing just that, because he didn't know about this BC-break, and after checking into it, he concluded 4.4 would break a lot of his software. It doesn't matter how wrong the programmers were by abusing PHP in this way. You have to feel sympathy for the fact that these people will be upgrading their servers only to find out their code stops working. How big a deal is it to announce this properly? I don't get it.. It would be a very easy task, and it would save a lot of people a lot of time and annoyance. I really don't understand where this ignorance and unwillingness to inform the users come from. Ron -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
